III

What are ye?

I know not.

Brazen pan and iron pot,

Yellow brick and gray flag-stone

That my feet have trod upon—

Ye seem to me

Vessels of bright mystery.

For ye do bear a shape, and so

Though ye were made by man, I know

An inner Spirit also made,

And ye his breathings have obeyed.

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